There is no one theme that jumps out this week – except the Google chatbot “is it sentient” story is everywhere – see tomorrow’s weekend read -, but that is just a bit of fun – not cyber security.
Back to Google’s “sentient” AI
The week has been made up of a variety of cyber security stories every organisation should be aware of – such as how ransomware is still the biggest threat to organisations and how social engineering and phishing play a big part in getting ransomware past technical defences to the fix for the Microsoft zero-day vulnerability Follina.
I have an interesting post coming out this Sunday by an executive at Microsoft, who is discussing what has been learnt about cyber-conflict from the early stages of the Ukraine Russia conflict and how the malware deployed could spread beyond the conflict borders. Here is my pinned post with business advice on what to do to secure yourself from the threat if it spreads:
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Because It’s Friday – small cute robots…
New commercial spyware for phones
Log4Shell is still an exploited vulnerability
Android banking malware is still a problem
Mega issues a security update
Google Chrome security updates available
Another phishing gang broken up by international co-operation – but there will still be more phishing attacks…
Halfords can’t keep a secret
Beware of fake NHS Covid text messages
If you are still catching up with Follina? Info from the Octagon support team.
Parcel delivery service Yodel suffers a cyber attack
Has June’s Patch Tuesday broken some Microsoft 365 sign-ins? UPDATE 22 June 2022
From the Octagon Technology blog: Kamila on what you need to do about the threat of ransomware
Microsoft versioning vulnerability – we have the solution
Ransomware targeting QNAP NAS drives – UPDATED
Vulnerabilities, come, get fixed, go and come back…
Threat actors come up with yet another way to steal your Microsoft credentials…
What can you buy on the Dark Web?
UK Government to change the cookie laws – they are too much bother as they are
If Mega cannot decrypt your files, don’t worry hackers can…
Indian Government’s confidential information security directive leaks!
A bit of personal protection
The real impact of ransomware on businesses
Linux botnet runs crypto-miner malware
CPU vulnerabilities – and it does not matter if you are team Intel, team AMD or team Apple!
Distributed Denial of Service attacks
Because It’s Friday – last minute shopping for Father’s Day… and of course the sentient Google AI story
